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Happy Mother’s Day

My mother is the greatest. She is my major support with my business and in life. She is my test knitter, my sample knitter, my sounding board, my printer and my shipper. She markets my patterns at LYSs that she visits on her travels and give me invaluable advice.

Knitting Pilgrimage

My new favourite blog to read is Knitting the Camino. Of course, I may be biased because it’s Nigel’s blog and he is my step-father. Nigel is walking across Northern Spain this month on a pilgrimage to Santiago.

Life-time Supply

Do I have enough straight pins now? On a recent trip to Dressew I found this huge box of nickel plated brass dressmakers pins which won’t rust. The perfect tool for blocking.

Patterns that work

I just have to share… Round one of the tech editing for my hush hush design is done and the tech editor said,

Really well-written pattern – you live up to your tagline!

Boys DO Knit!

I’ve been searching for the children’s book, Boys Don’t Knit! by Janice Schoop for some time. My child is starting to be influenced by the boys at school and she often classifies activities as boys’ or girls’ activities.

Hand-Me-Downs

What do you do with the lovingly hand knitted clothes your kids have outgrown? I just don’t have the heart to take these items to the consignment store or to donate them.

Aftermath

Sitting down this morning with one of the last hot cross buns of the season and a cafe latte. (I do love my knitterly dishes!)

Little Knitters

This week has been all about teaching knitting and crochet classes to little kids. I’m offering three different classes for the noon-hour programs at Hana’s school. This marks the first of 8 weeks of lunchtime madness!

Mystery Package

For days now, Fedex has been trying to deliver a package to me—but I wasn’t expecting anything. I received a letter from them asking for my phone number and my buzzer number. How very odd.